大学英语课文翻译unit4
美国文化的五大象征
自由女神像
Para. 1 19 世纪70 年代中期，法国艺术家弗里德里克·奥古斯特·巴托尔迪正在设计一个大项目，名为“自由照耀世界”。
这是一座庆祝美国独立和美法联盟的纪念碑。
与此同时，他爱上了一位他在加拿大认识的女子。
他母亲不赞成自己的儿子和一个她没有见过的女子恋爱，然而巴托尔迪不为所动，和心中所爱于1876 年结为伉俪。
Para. 2 同年，巴托尔迪组装完雕像的右臂和火炬，并将它们陈列在费城。
据说，他用了妻子的手臂为模本，但觉得她的脸太漂亮，不适合做雕像模本。
他需要这样一个女人：面容沧桑却不失坚定，庄重多于美丽。
他选择了自己的母亲。
Para. 3 1886 年，自由女神像在纽约湾北部落成。
雕像综合了他母亲的脸和他妻子的身材，不过巴托尔迪称之为“我的女儿，自由之神”。
芭比娃娃
Para. 4 在现今销售的各式各样的芭比娃娃之前，原先只有一种芭比娃娃。
实际上，她的名字叫芭芭拉。
Para. 5芭芭拉·汉德勒是马特尔玩具公司的联合创始人艾略特和鲁思·汉德勒夫妇的女儿。
鲁思是在见到女儿玩纸娃娃之后才想到做芭比娃娃的。
芭比娃娃的三维模特是一个德国洋娃娃，一个哄成年人开心的礼物，被描绘成具有“风尘女子”的模样。
马特尔公司将这个娃娃做了一番改造，变成了体面而地道的美国版本，尽管胸围有些夸张。
它以当时10 多岁的少女芭芭拉的名字命名。
Para. 6 自从1959 年面世，芭比娃娃就成了全球公认的“娃娃女王”。
马特尔公司说，一般的美国女孩拥有10 个芭比娃娃，全球每秒钟就有两个芭比娃娃售出。
Para. 7 如今芭芭拉已有60 多岁了，她拒绝接受采访，但据说她非常喜欢芭比娃娃。
她可能是当今世上最著名的不为人知的人物了。
Para. 8 1961 年，芭比娃娃的男朋友面世，以芭芭拉的弟弟肯的名字命名。
真正的肯于1994 年去世。
他对令自己全家名扬天下的娃娃极为厌恶。
他在1993 年说：“我可不想让我的孩子玩这洋娃娃。
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《美国哥特人》
Para. 9 1930 年，格兰特·伍德因其画作《美国哥特人》一举成名。
此画体现了美国农民庄严的自豪，常常被人复制。
画面展示了一位神色严肃的男子和一位女子站立在农舍之前。
伍德深受中世纪艺术家的影响，他的灵感来自于一所古老农舍的哥特式窗户，但最令世界注目的是画中人物的脸。
Para. 10 伍德喜欢画他熟悉的脸。
为画神色严肃的农夫，他选择了他那表情木讷的牙医，至于站在他身边的农妇，他选择了自己的姐姐南。
他把模特的脖子稍稍画长了一些，但无疑能看出谁是画像的原型。
Para. 11 南后来说道，《美国哥特人》带给她的名誉使她摆脱了一种非常乏味的生活。
野牛镍币
Para. 12 今天，美国的硬币都用来纪念美国政府的杰出人物，其中大部分是著名的前总统。
但1913 至1938 年间发行的野牛镍币，却是为了纪念由美国拓居引起的两起相互关联的悲剧——野牛群的灭绝和美洲印第安人的毁灭。
Para. 13 此前一直是白人被用作美国镍币上的模特，而著名的艺术家詹姆斯·厄尔·弗雷泽却反传统而行之，起用了三名真正的美洲印第安人作为自己创作的原型。
Para. 14 由于大草原上不再有野牛漫步，弗雷泽为了镍币另一面上的野牛，只好到纽约中央公园的动物园里素描一只老野牛。
两年后，即1915 年，此牛以100 美元的价格售出，
然后被宰杀取肉、剥皮，牛角制成了墙上的装饰品。
山姆大叔
Para. 15 美国独立战争时期，14 岁的山姆·威尔逊离家出走，加入父亲和哥哥们的行列，为美国殖民地独立于英国而战。
23 岁时，他开始从事肉类加工业，并因为人诚实、工作勤奋而赢得声誉。
Para. 16此后在1812 年的战争中，威尔逊获得了一个职位，为美国军队检验肉食。
他的合伙人和美国政府签订了一份合同，给军队提供肉食。
送到军队的肉桶上面都印有EA-US 标志，EA 代表公司名，US 代表原产国。
传说有一回，有个政府官员来参观加工厂，问及这些字母的含义，一个想象力丰富的雇员告诉他，“US”是“山姆大叔”威尔逊的缩写。
很快，士兵们都说所有的军需品都来自“山姆大叔”。
Para. 17战后，政治漫画里开始出现一个名叫“山姆大叔”的人物。
他的原型是一个早期漫画人物，名叫乔纳森大哥，此人在美国独立战争时期非常出名。
很快，山姆大叔就取代了乔纳森大哥，成了最受美国人欢迎的象征。
最令人难忘的山姆大叔的画像是由画家詹姆斯·蒙哥马利·弗拉格创作的，用在两次世界大战期间他画的很多著名的征兵招贴画上。
山姆大叔的形象是：高个子，白头发，下巴上有一小撮白胡子，身着深蓝色外套，头戴一顶高帽，上有星星点缀。
这模样其实就是弗拉格的自画像。
Unit 4 Fresh Start新编大学英语第二版第一册课文翻译
Unit 4 Fresh StartFresh Start[1] I first began to wonder what I was doing on a college campus when my parents drove off, leaving me standing pitifully in a parking lot. I decided I wanted nothing more than to find my way safely to my dorm room. It seemed that everyone on campus was watching me. My plan was to keep my ears open and my mouth shut and I hoped no one would notice I was a freshman.[2] The next morning I found my first class and marched in. Once I was in the room, however, another problem awaited me. Where to sit? After much hesitation I chose a seat in the first row and to the side.[3] "Welcome to Biology 101," the professor began. Oh, God, I had thought it was a literature class. A cold sweat broke out on the back of my neck. I groped for my schedule and checked the room number. I was in the right room but the wrong building.[4] So now what? Get up and leave in the middle of the lecture? Wouldn't the professor be angry? I knew everyone would stare. Forget it. I settled into my chair and tried to look as serious as a biology major might be.[5] After class I felt a little hungry, and I hurried to the cafeteria. I piled my tray with sandwiches and was heading for the seat when I accidentally stepped in a large puddle of ketchup. My food tray tipped and I lost my balance. As my rear end met the floor, I saw my entire life pass before my eyes; it ended with my first day of college classes.[6] In the seconds after my fall I thought how nice it would be if no one had noticed. But as all the students in the cafeteria came to their feet, cheering and clapping, I knew they had not only noticed, they were determined that I would never forget it.[7] For the next three days I dined alone on nothing more than shame, and some junk food from a machine placed outside my room. On the fourth day I thought I needed some real food badly. Perhaps three days was long enough for the campus population [N] to have forgotten me. So off to the cafeteria I went.[8] I made my way through the food line and tiptoed to a table. Suddenly I heard a crash that sounded familiar. I looked up to find that another poor soul had met the same fate as I had. My heart went out to him as people began to cheer and clap as they had for me. He got up, hands held high above his head in a victory clasp, grinning from ear to ear.I expected him to slip out of the cafeteria as I had, but instead he turned around and began preparing another tray. And that's when I realized I had been taking myself far too seriously.[9] Who cared whether I dropped a tray, where I sat in class, or even whether Ishowed up in the wrong lecture? Nobody. This wasn't like high school. In college, it didn't matter. This was my big chance to do my own thing.[10] Once I realized that I had no one's expectations to live up to but my own, I relaxed. I began to view college as a wonderful experiment. I dressed a little differently, I discovered a taste for jazz, and I decided I liked going barefoot.[11] I gave up trying to act my way through college and began not acting at all. College, I decided, was probably the only time I would be completely forgiven for any mistakes (including stepping in puddles of ketchup and dropping food trays). So I used the opportunity to make all the ones I thought I'd ever make.[12] Three years after graduation, I'm still making mistakes. And I'm even being forgiven for a few.新的开端1 当我父母开车离去，留下我可怜巴巴站在停车场上时，我开始寻思我在校园里该做什么。
Unit 4 Turning off TV A Quiet Hour课文翻译大学英语一
Unit 4 Turning off TV：A Quiet HourMany people in the United States spend most of their free time watching television. Certainly, there are many worthwhile programs on television, including news, educational programs for children, programs on current social problems, plays, movies, concerts, and so on. Nevertheless, perhaps people should not be spending so much of their time in front of the TV. Mr Mayer imagines what we might do if we were forced to find other activities.I would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening, right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law.Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our problems -- everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness -- are caused at least in part by failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what is disturbing us. The result is emotional difficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset. Or they might take a walk together (remember feet?) and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes.With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.A different form of reading might also be done, as it was in the past: reading aloud. Few pastimes bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. Whenthe quiet hour ends, the TV networks might even be forced to come up with better shows in order to get us back from our newly discovered activities.At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical. What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But it is not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television, spent partly with radio -- which at least involved the listener's imagination -- but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games, inventing new activities. It wasn't that difficult. Honest. The truth is we had a ball.在美国，许多人把大部分空闲时间花在看电视上。
现代大学英语精读1 UNIT4 Midnight Visitor 课文翻译
2014101018第四单元Translation of Text A不速之客1 奥萨博与福勒所读过的书中关于特工的描述并不相副。
福勒很失望地跟着他一路走过阴暗的法国旅馆的走廊，在那里奥萨博租了一套房间。
那是一个位于六层的小房间，这种环境很难与这样一位传奇人物联系起来。
2 令他失望的是，首先，奥萨博是一个胖子，而且非常胖。
其次是他的口音，尽管他的法语和德语都还说的过去，但他仍然带有二十年前带到巴黎的新英格兰口音。
3 “你一定很失望”，奥萨博气喘吁吁的回过头说。
“别人说我是一个特工，一名间谍，周旋于间谍和危险之间。
你期望能见到我，因为你是一个年轻，浪漫的作家。
你本来以为今天晚上回碰见神秘人物，枪声，放在酒里的迷药。
4 “然而事情并不像你相象的那样，你在一个演奏法国音乐的餐厅同一个胖子度过了一个乏味的夜晚，而并没有黑眼睛的美女给他传递情报，只是打了个普通电话，将在他的房间里与人有个约会。
你一定已经无聊及了。
”胖男人边低声笑着边开门，并且站到一旁让他那位失望的客人进了房间。
5 “你的幻想破灭了，”奥萨博对他说。
“但是我年轻的朋友，振作起来。
一会儿你就会看到一分文件，这份相当重要的文件曾经让好几个人甘冒生命危险，送到我这儿后，我将把它转交给政府部门。
很快这份文件就很影响到历史的进程。
有点戏剧化，不是吗?”他边说，边随后关上了门。
然后打开灯。
6 当灯亮时，福勒这一天中第一次感到真正害怕了。
因为在房间的中间站着一个男人，手里拿着一只小型自动手枪。
7 奥萨博眨眨眼睛楞了一会儿。
8 “马克思”，他喘着气说，“你真让我吃惊，我以为你在柏林呢。
你在我房间里做什么?”9 马克思很单薄，个子不高，脸上的表情回让人想到狐狸。
要不是那支枪，他看上去并不是太危险。
10 “那分报告”，他低声说道。
“今天晚上将送到你手里的那分报告是有关一些新型导弹的。
我想我要把它从你受里拿走，在我手里比在你手里安全。
”11 奥萨博缓慢走到扶手椅，重重地坐在上面。
大学英语4Unit4课文翻译
沉睡谷传奇1 有个山谷名叫沉睡谷,深藏于纽约州的崇山峻岭之间。
关于这个沉静的山谷流传着很多故事,不过人们最相信的莫过于无头骑士鬼魂的故事了。
故事说,很久以前,这个人在美国独立战争中牺牲,据说他的头被炸掉了。
人们看见他在幽暗的夜色中匆匆前行,寻找他失去的头颅。
2 沉睡谷附近有个村庄叫达里镇。
村里有所小学,学校里有位老师叫伊卡博德?鹤。
伊卡博德?鹤这个名字很适合他,因为他又高又瘦,就像一只鹤,瘦小的肩膀上连着两只长长的手臂。
他的头也小小的,头顶平平的,还有一对大耳朵,两只大而无神的绿眼睛和一个长长的鼻子。
3 作为一个老师,伊卡博德收入十分有限。
他虽长得瘦高,吃起饭来可不含糊,饭量跟一个大胖子不相上下。
为了能多赚点钱填饱肚子,他又兼职教年轻人唱歌。
4 伊卡博德教的女孩子当中有个叫卡特里娜? 范塔苏的。
她是一位荷兰富农的独生女,正值十八岁的花季,像鹌鹑一样丰满,成熟而柔美,脸色红润,就像她父亲种的桃子一样。
伊卡博德对女人总是有一颗柔软而痴傻的心,很快,他便意识到自己对范塔苏小姐的爱慕之情。
5 但是要走进卡特里娜的心里有重重障碍。
其中有一个叫布罗姆?范布伦特的年轻人,他身强体壮,是所有年轻女孩心中的英雄。
他肩膀宽阔,身体柔韧,一头卷曲的黑色短发,配着一张粗犷但并不让人讨厌的脸庞。
村里的赛马比赛他总是赢家,赢得了许多奖项。
而且,布罗姆总是骑着马。
伊卡博德要赢得卡特里娜的心,必须打败这样一个敌人。
6 稍微强壮、聪明的男人都会知难而退,但是伊卡博德有自己的计划。
他无法公开和敌人决斗,所以他悄悄地、秘密地进行。
他经常拜访卡特里娜家的农庄,使她认为他是在帮助她提高唱歌水平。
7 时间流逝,村里的人都认为伊卡博德将赢得这场竞争。
星期天晚上再也看不到布罗姆的马出现在卡特里娜家。
8 到了秋天,一天伊卡博德受邀到范塔苏家参加一个盛大的派对。
他穿上他最好的衣服。
因为去参加派对要走很远的路,一位农夫借给他一匹老马。
9 布罗姆?范布伦特骑着他那匹跑得最快的名为“鬼见愁”的马来到派对。
新视野大学英语第四册Unit4课文翻译
新视野大学英语第四册Unit4课文翻译新视野大学英语第四册Unit 4课文翻译新视野大学英语第四册第四单元的课文跟电信网络有关，下面是店铺分享的课文翻译，欢迎大家阅读!新视野大学英语第四册Unit 4课文翻译一个将会大大提高发展中国家生活水准的转变正方兴未艾。
一些不久前还是信息闭塞的地方正在迅速获得最新的通信技术，这将促进他们吸纳国内外投资。
亚洲、拉丁美洲和东欧的许多国家也许需要10年时间来改善其交通、电力供应和其他公用设施。
但是只一根直径小于半毫米的光纤电缆就可以比由铜丝制成的粗电缆承载更多的信息。
由于安装了光纤电缆、数字转换器和最新的无线传输系统，从北京到布达佩斯的一系列城区和工业区正在直接步入信息时代。
一个蛛网般的数字和无线通信网络已经发展到亚洲的大部分地区和东欧的部分地区。
所有这些发展中地区都把先进的通信技术看作一种跨越经济发展诸阶段的途径。
例如，信息技术的广泛应用有望缩短劳动密集型的组装工业转向涉及工程、营销和设计的那些产业所需的时间。
现代通信技术“将使中国、越南这样的国家比那些困于旧技术的国家拥有巨大的优势”。
这些国家应以多快的速度向前发展是人们争论的一个问题。
许多专家认为，越南在目前急需电话的情况下，却要求所有的移动电话都必须是昂贵的数字型电话，这种做法太超前了。
一位专家说：“这些国家缺乏成本估算和选择技术的经验。
”然而毋庸争辩，通信技术将是区分输赢的关键因素。
看一看俄罗斯的情况吧。
由于其坚实的数学和科学教育基础，它应该在信息时代有繁荣的发展。
问题是，它的国内电话系统是一堆生锈的20世纪30年代的老古董。
为了解决这一问题，俄罗斯已经开始铺设光纤电缆，并制定了投入400亿美元建设多项通信工程的战略计划。
但是由于其经济陷于低迷，几乎没有资金来着手解决最基本的问题。
与俄罗斯相比，在未来10年中，中国大陆计划对通信设备投入1,000亿美元。
从某种意义上说，中国的落后成了一种有利因素，因为这一发展正好发生在新技术比铜线电缆系统更便宜的时候。
Book1 Unit4 课文翻译及练习答案
新视界大学英语综合教程第四单元课文翻译及练习答案Active Reading跨种族婚姻“路易斯安那州的一位治安法官刚刚辞职了。
此法官拒绝批准一对情侣结婚，因为女方是白人，而男方是黑人。
几个星期以来，他拒绝离开职位，但最终还是辞职了，而且并未给出原因。
路易斯安那州州长接受了他的辞职。
这位白人治安法官声称，他一直避免批准不同种族间的婚姻，原因是他认为其子女会因此受罪。
他说：‘对婚姻双方的任一种族来说，接纳这样家庭的孩子都是有难度的。
我认为这些孩子会因此受罪，我不想让这种事情发生。
’”你认为这篇报道是什么时候发表的？也许是20 世纪50 年代吧？那个时候黑白种族隔离是有法可依的。
也许是20 世纪60 年代吧？那个时候有马丁·路德·金领导的民权运动。
事实上，这篇报道发表于2009 年10 月。
这个国家是著名的“大熔炉”，有着悠久的种族冲突的历史，也有一些成功融合的例子。
这位法官今日仍然持有这种观点，我们是否应当感到耻辱？或者，他认识到了自己的错误并辞去职务，我们是否应当为此高兴？经济全球化运动使得全世界范围内商品共享、服务共享、技术共享，这促进了跨种族婚姻。
经济全球化运动同样对社会和文化产生影响，这也许会带来不同种族间的友谊、爱情和婚姻。
但是，在美国的某些地区，“一滴血原则”似乎仍然有很大的影响。
这一原则的内容是：只要你有一滴非裔的血，你就是黑人。
那么，现如今，对于跨种族婚姻双方和美国大众来说，这样的婚姻有什么样的挑战和机遇呢？在美国的某些政治和社交圈子里，人们认为跨种族婚姻只不过是为了让身为移民的一方得到绿卡，以便在此居留和工作。
也有人声称，跨种族婚姻的动机在于较穷困的一方渴望获得经济保障，尽管这意味着他们也许不得不背井离乡。
幸运的是，还有很多其他人明白人类的基本价值(如相互吸引）在跨种族婚姻中起着最重要的作用。
无论结婚的真正动机是什么，所有这些情侣都会面对不同金钱观与不同传统价值观的挑战，这些传统价值观包括对伴侣的尊重、传统的宗教观、被社区接受、男女分工以及传统的语言观等。
新标准大学英语综合教程2 Unit 4课文翻译
Unit 4Active reading (1)上头条世界各地的媒体都以头条报道同一新闻的情形并不很常见。
这样的事件得具有巨大的国际影响力。
但是这正是2001 年9 月恐怖分子袭击纽约世贸中心双塔之后发生的情形。
从那一刻起世界改变了模样，这样说也许并不夸张。
但是，使9/11 值得纪念并（用媒体喜欢的话来说）具有新闻价值的不仅仅是它的历史性和国际性。
还有震惊和恐惧。
这一消息极度震撼，极具爆炸性。
事发多年以后，许多人还能清楚地记得他们第一次听到这一消息时身在何处和当时正在做什么。
他们能记得自己的反应：对全世界许多人来说，他们的第一本能是去把这一消息告诉别的人。
这就证实了那句老话：“坏事传千里”。
一切重大新闻都是如此。
我记得上小学的时候，老师脸色煞白地向一班吃惊的七岁孩子通报说，肯尼迪总统死了。
我并不知道肯尼迪总统是谁，但是我听到这一消息后非常不安，后来就跑回家去告诉了父母（当然，他们已经知道了）。
事实上，这是我最早的记忆之一。
那么，新闻到底是什么？一个事件光有客观重要性显然还不够——世界上有大量全球性的大问题，都会造成戏剧性的后果，从贫困问题到全球变暖问题——但由于它们都是进行中的，并不都集中在同一天上头条。
对比之下，9/11 不仅具有国际性，而且奇特怪异、出人意料，还（可能使读者对身陷那场悲剧中的人们的困境感同身受，从这个意义上讲）极具人性。
奇特怪异并不意味着重大。
就拿今天的《中国日报》上关于一只老鼠延误了一架从越南飞至日本的航班这条消息为例吧。
在河内机场有人发现那只老鼠在一架飞机的过道里奔跑。
它最终被12 名技术人员合力逮住，他们怕它会咬破电线，造成短路。
飞机晚点了四个多小时才起飞。
你也许会说，这并不是具有重大国际影响的事件（除了少数乘客到另一国赴约迟到以外）。
但是全球却颇有反响，从亚洲经苏格兰到美洲的电子版报纸都有转载（《爱丁堡晚报》的标题是“捉老鼠延误航班”）。
另一个新闻价值的元素是即时性。
Unit-4-Psychology-in-Our-Daily-Life新编大学英语第二版第二册课文翻译
Unit 4 Psychology in Our Daily LifeIs There a Doctor in the Body?1 When you go to the doctor, you like to come away with a prescription. It makes you feel better to know you will get some medicine. But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed. Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well. In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo.2 A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or an empty capsule. Even though they have no medicine in them, these things seem to make people well. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen?3 The study of the placebo opens up new knowledge about the way the human body can heal itself. It is as if there was a doctor in each of us. The "doctor" will heal the body for us if we let it.4 But it is not yet known just how the placebo works to heal the body. Some people say it works because the human mind fools itself. These people say that if the mind is fooled into thinking it got medicine, then it will act as if it did, and the body will feel better.5 Other people say this is not so. They say that the placebo makes the wish to get better become reality. The placebo will not work if the patient knows it is a placebo. This shows that the body is not fooled by it. It seems that if patients think they have been given medicine, they will have hope. They feel that they are getting some help. This gives them a stronger will to get better, and that is what helps to heal them.6 Placebos do not always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has a lot of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all.7 An example of the doctor's role in making the placebo work can be seen in this study. Some patients with bleeding ulcers were put in two groups. The first group were told by a doctor that they had been given a new drug which, it was hoped, would give them some relief. The second group were told by a nurse that they had been given a newdrug but that not much was known about how it would work. As a result, 70 percent of the people in the first group got much better. Only 25 percent of the people in the second group got better. And both groups had in fact been given the same thing a placebo.8 The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases. It helps such things as seasickness, coughs, colds, and even pain after an operation. And there was an experiment done to see if a placebo could help old people stay healthy and live longer.9 The test was done in Romania with 150 people over the age of 60. They were put in three groups with 50 people in each group. The first group were given nothing at all. The second group were given a placebo. The third group were given a real drug and told that it would help with the problems of old age. (In fact, it was not a drug for old age at all.) The three groups were studied for many years. The first group showed no changes from the way old people in that village had always been. The second group (with the placebo) had much better health and a lower death rate. The third group (with the real drug) showed much the same results as the group that took the placebo.10 A placebo can also have bad effects. If patients expect a bad reaction to medicine, then they will also show a bad reaction to the placebo. This would seem to show that a lot of how you react to medicine is in your mind rather than in your body. Some doctors still think that if the placebo can have bad effects it should never be used. They think there is still not enough known about it.11 And yet, the use of the placebo has been well known for hundreds of years in other countries. Tribal doctors in some African countries have known for a long time that patients will get better if they think they are going to. Many of the "treatments" they use do not seem able to make a sick person better, and yet such treatments work.12 The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo.人体内有医生吗？1 当你去看病时，你总希望走时能拿到一张药方。
新视野大学英语第三版第一册UNIT4课文翻译
UNIT4TEST A我们身边的英雄1 谁是当今的英雄？在一个英雄主义发扬光大的时代，“英雄”一词已经变得更加常见。
我们把各种困难和悲剧的受害者和幸存者都称为“英雄”。
那么，我们身边哪些人是英雄呢？2 在亚利桑那州图森市枪击案发生后的日子里，许多人都把20岁的政界同事丹尼尔•赫尔南德兹描述为英雄。
在骇人的枪击案发生时，他勇敢地冒着危险，去救助受害者之一、也是他的上司和朋友的加布里埃尔•吉福德议员。
丹尼尔把她的头托高，便于她呼吸，并用力摁住她的伤口。
他用温柔体贴的话语安慰她，告诉她他会把她的丈夫和父母找来，告诉她一切都会好的。
而且，他一直守护在她身边，在去医院的路上，他也一直在救护车里陪伴在她身旁。
3 图森枪击事件中的另一位英雄是多利•斯托达德。
多利为保护妻子梅维献出了自己的生命。
多利和他的妻子自小青梅竹马。
一听到枪声，多利马上扑在妻子身上为她挡住扫射过来的子弹。
在葬礼仪式上，牧师说道：“多利一生英雄，非死才为英雄。
”多利•斯托达德一直以来以精神高尚、富有爱心而为大家所熟知，他至死也同他生前一样在帮助他人。
4 这些都是平民英雄。
他们在特别危急的情况下，本能地做出勇敢而高尚的举动。
5 但是，那些应急救援人员是否也算是英雄呢？用一位已故警官遗孀的话来说，他们的工作就是“迎着危险上”。
6 在加拿大多伦多市，11,000多名警察和其他应急救援人员肃穆地在大街上游行，纪念一位具有高度保护和服务意识的“好男人和好警察”、35岁的瑞安•罗素警佐。
当时整个市中心的其他活动都停止了。
罗素警佐迅速采取行动，保护他人免受伤害。
他仅凭着一辆警车和一颗帮助他人的善良的心，试图挡住一辆醉驾司机驾驶的偷来的扫雪车。
不幸的是，他没能拦住醉驾司机，不幸牺牲。
7 在过去，“英雄”一词仅限于称呼那些做出超乎职责范围的特别英勇的行为的人们。
一位战士冒着枪林弹雨去抢救其他战友，他被看作英雄。
同样，超凡卓越的具有传奇色彩的领袖人物也是英雄，比如纳尔逊•曼德拉。
Unit 4 Living on Your Own课文翻译大学体验英语一
Unit 4 Living on Your OwnPassage A Marcela's Work ExperienceI decided early in my college years that I wanted to experience living abroad before entering in the "real world." During my senior year, while most of my friends were interviewing for "real world" jobs, I was investigating how I could go work in a different country. At that early stage of my inquiry I was pretty open about where to go and what kind of work to undertake. My desire to live abroad was so strong that I was willing to do anything anywhere.Soon I learned about BUNAC, a program that seemed to be designed precisely for students with such interests. BUNAC offers work visas for students or recent graduates to work overseas. Of the six countries available, I chose England because of the language and opportunities for employment.Two months after I graduated from college I crossed the Atlantic. I traveled throughout Europe for six weeks before arriving in London. I got to London on August 24, 1997 with a work visa, but no job or place to live. I have to admit it was pretty scary! The day after I arrived, I experienced my first British holiday-Bank Holiday, a national holiday where everything is closed for the day. It wasn't until my third day that I visited the BUNAC office and went through orientation. At the orientation I learned all about living and working in Britain; I learned about getting around in the city, making a CV (Curriculum Vitae-British resume), paying taxes, getting health insurance, traveling around Britain, finding accommodations and most importantly, finding a job. I was most scared about finding a job since my financial resources were running low and I needed to get a paycheck soon.It turns out that finding a job was just as easy as making a CV! The BUNAC program is very well known in London and many employers participate in the program. As a result there are many employers in many different fields to choose from. My job search began when I chose three different business employers and faxed them my cover letter1 and CV. That first week I had three interviews. I accepted my first offer working for Merrill Lynch International Bank. The Merrill Lynch office I worked at was in a beautiful, old building located two blocks from Buckingham Palace. The people were nice and the work interesting.It was easy to adjust to life in London. And there is so much to see that after six months exploring I probably covered only half of what I intended.Working in London has many advantages. For one, I truly get to learn the culture by being immersed in its workforce. Most of my coworkers were British so I feel like I really got to know and learn the British culture through such a huge aspect of a British person's daily life. Secondly, it is an economical way to live and travel in another country since most jobs pay enough to cover rent, living expenses and some travel expenses. And thirdly, I have the chance to gain valuable work experience and internationalize my resume.Working in London has been the best decision I have made so far. I would not hesitate for a second to recommend it to anyone!A篇玛塞娜的工作经历进大学不久我就下定决心，在进入"现实世界"前先到国外呆一段。